The Works of the English Poets, Volume 49G. Bigg, 1779 - 324 pages |
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... flood , Far from their friends , and country unaveng'd ; And back the drooping war - fhip comes again , Difpirited , and thin ; her fons afham'd * Frederick . 35 40 Thus Thus idly to review their native shore ; With not THOMSON'S POEMS .
... flood , Far from their friends , and country unaveng'd ; And back the drooping war - fhip comes again , Difpirited , and thin ; her fons afham'd * Frederick . 35 40 Thus Thus idly to review their native shore ; With not THOMSON'S POEMS .
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... native shore ; With not one glory fparkling in their eye , One triumph on their tongue . A paffenger , The violated merchant comes along ; That far - fought wealth , for which the noxious gale He drew , and fweat beneath equator funs ...
... native shore ; With not one glory fparkling in their eye , One triumph on their tongue . A paffenger , The violated merchant comes along ; That far - fought wealth , for which the noxious gale He drew , and fweat beneath equator funs ...
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... your wifdom ; this The native power for which you were defign'd By Fate , when Fate defign'd the firmest state , That e'er was feated on the fubject fea ; В 4 185 190 A ftate , A ftate , alone , where Liberty should live , BRITANNIA .
... your wifdom ; this The native power for which you were defign'd By Fate , when Fate defign'd the firmest state , That e'er was feated on the fubject fea ; В 4 185 190 A ftate , A ftate , alone , where Liberty should live , BRITANNIA .
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... native foe : a foreign , tears without . First from your flatter'd Cæsars this began : Till , doom'd to tyrants an eternal prey , Thin - peopled fpreads , at laft , the fyren plain , That the dire foul of Hannibal difarm'd ; And wrapt ...
... native foe : a foreign , tears without . First from your flatter'd Cæsars this began : Till , doom'd to tyrants an eternal prey , Thin - peopled fpreads , at laft , the fyren plain , That the dire foul of Hannibal difarm'd ; And wrapt ...
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... native rights and honour of their race : " Teach me thy lowest subject , but in zeal 340 345 Yielding to none , the Progrefs of thy Reign , " And with a strain from Thee enrich the Mufe . " As Thee alone fhe ferves , her patron , Thou ...
... native rights and honour of their race : " Teach me thy lowest subject , but in zeal 340 345 Yielding to none , the Progrefs of thy Reign , " And with a strain from Thee enrich the Mufe . " As Thee alone fhe ferves , her patron , Thou ...
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